Africa: The SDGs, COVID-19 and the Global South - Insights From the Sustainable Development Report 2020

[IPS] Paris/New York -- COVID-19 has claimed more than 550,000 lives and disrupted the entire world, sparing no region. As of July 2020, the number of daily new confirmed cases and deaths due to COVID-19 are growing rapidly in Latin America and the Caribbean, especially in Brazil and Mexico but also in many African countries as well as India. As highlighted in a recent article, these numbers are likely underestimated given the reduced testing capacity in many low and middle-income countries.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - Category: African Health Source Type: news